Lady of house is not amused when I referred to our parish church as “that neighborhood emporium of grace and salvation.” Another time, maybe, but I take her as Everywoman responding to my various bon mots and salvos in the cause of humor as antidote (temporary, yes, but what isn’t in our vale of tears?) [...]
A poem criticizing The Tablet, UK’s Catholic newspaper of record: For the people at The Tablet Life seems very tough. They publish, publish, publish, But no one buys their stuff. On tables, shelves, old, yellowing Unsold, the copies lie. “What can be done to save our jobs? What is there left to try?” More more more at The Left Footer’s blog. [...]
“Today everybody’s a Catholic,” said an Anglican priest from the speaker’s platform at the media-ignored Federal Plaza rally for religious freedom on March 23 attended by hundreds. He was Rev. Stewart Ruch, senior pastor of the 950-member Church of the Resurrection, in Wheaton. On the platform with him was Rev. Kevin Miller, associate rector, who [...]
PURITANS AND ROMANTICS: Religion was reduced by the Puritans “to mere morality,” the Puritan imagination was “thoroughly moralized,” said H.B. Parkes and H.W. Schneider respectively, both of them quoted by Yvor Winters in his 1930 book Maule’s Curse. The “highly stimulated” Puritan, said Winters, was “no longer guided by the flexible and sensitive ethical scholarship of the Roman tradition.” [...]
Apologies all around for blanket assertions at Chicago Catholic News 8/22 about preaching, in which I forgot the importance of loving the sinner while hating the sin. NOT that we have sin here, NOR people trying to deceive for ulterior motives. ON THE CONTRARY, we have generous souls seeking to elevate listeners to new understanding [...]
